Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Yankees and Andy Pettitte have come to terms on a one-year contract, general manager Brian Cashman confirmed this afternoon. The deal is reportedly worth $12 million plus incentives. Pettitte, 40, pitched for $2.5 million last season.

It's official. Who knew that pitching 75 innings could help you earn 10 times as much as you did the prior season?

Combining several comments into one so I don't have to prove myself...

Whiteside will probably clear waivers and end up in AAA still. He was always (IMHO) depth. I think people forget sometimes how hard it can be to find a quality catcher if you get a couple of injuries to your major-league players. So Cashman is trying to be proactive to make sure they don't get in a case where they're STARTING a sub-replacement level catcher in June.

A little surprised Upton got that much. But I think it goes to show he's a valuable commodity. Upset the Yankees didn't get him, but glad they didn't outbid the Braves. Swish will probably get similar.

My bet on Piazza is no. As good as he was, I don't know if he's an inner-circle HOF. For example, FanGraphs has him as the 7th best catcher all time; 6th if you remove Torre. But I could also see an argument for moving Dickey ahead of him (2 lost years for WW2, World Series). Add that to steriod suspician and the backlog of qualified HOF candidates...not saying he isn't clearly deserving, just that I don't think he'll get in first crack. Within 5 years though.

Also, Martin might be seeking 4 years at $9M-$10M per but it sounds like the only offer he has is from the Pirates, and the highest it might be is 3 years $22M. If they can get him back on the 3 years $24M they offered last off-season, I'm on board. If not, turn it over to the cheap in house folks and use the savings on a RHH platoon OFer. (I'm assuming the "deep love" between Ichiro and the Yankees will eventually turn that mythical $5 "nearly one season" deal into reality)

Also, if it helps, bring back the Evony ads and we promise to click on them this time. Additionally, I think we can talk Pin into buying another commemorative coin if necessary, or maybe selling the original, and now presumably priceless, commemorative coin to fund the new site.